As of recently, many games I used to play and could easily run all started crashing. They all crash within a minute, and these games include far cry 5, Honkai starrail, and Fortnite. I also used to be able to run hogwarts legacy, but now it won’t even start.
The reason why I’m thinking of reinstalling windows is because I’ve tried multiple online solutions, though to no avail. Im really lost on what to do, any help? Thanks
Specs (old but able to run those games at low/medium graphics) : i7-4790k Gtx 960 16 gigs of ddr3
I would try that. Try checking the system info tab in windows event viewer after a crash: Cause a crash to happen as it normally would and note the time. You can reference the time of the crash to find the event in windows event viewer. It will probably show an error with a red icon somewhere in the minute of the crash and when you click on it it may have helpful info.
I had the same type of issue recently and it seemed like a hardware problem from the blue screen codes. I tried everything I found online including a fresh install of windows. But when I looked at event viewer I found out some software(msi center) was changing the power plan for my gpu causing the crashes.